The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-22
Notes Of the stage.

Ed r.. Mayo will play return engagement at the
Museum next week in "Davy Crockett"
The National Opera Company get q guarantee Of
900 for five performances at Louisville next
crk.
Ina recent interview Patti said that she considered
lisa 10 Lohengrin." to be tho most exquisite of all
operate heroines.
young tiger cat is Nine Bernhsrdss pet Just s
She hugs and kisses him unmindtul ot the
scratches. and calls him ''1igrette."
Rose Coghlsn. Osmond Tearle, Kyrle Bellew. John
Gilbert and Nine. Ponisi viii be members Of the COM
pany at Walack's Theater next season
It Ia said that Mrs. James Brown Potter lost
average of So, 500 week at the London Haymarket.
1t is said also that less than seventy persons at
tended some Of her performances.
Nine. Patti actually wept to such extent at her
farewell in Aida that the Indian complexion suf-
fercd and yet she carries away just about 100000
good American and Mexican dollars
Modieska will produce r.ay next season
"The Wisch." aa adaptation by Z. N. Rae. an En-
drama. II has been tried in London.
The epherneral yet Phoenix like Haverly has gi-
Rentic amusement scheme foot with lots of cap
ployed the interest law de6ed by way ot
balloon something and the whole thing is said to
have millions in it."
TO manage Helen Dauvray. J. II. Barnes, Joseph Ha.
worth, Frank Ianiels,. and the following plays:
by Joseph Arthur and several others 4 member of
this firm is James b. Dickson. Of this city
The new principals in the National Opera Company
Zanten. who considered the best dramatic
tralco in Europe, 311s. Bertha Pierson, dramatic
sophrano of vide experience in opera in Europe and
Cariss Bas ssJt young American tenor, who is said
to have a remarkable voice.
Maurice Strakosch relates that the great prina
donna, Frezzolini, had parrot which she always
took with her in her travels and which had learned TO
initiate exactly the voice of its mistress that there
was no telling the from the other. One day, in
New Orleans, Strakosch knocked at the door of his
prima donnas Come nl" shouted from
within aud he entered and beheld treZZolini the
costume in which Truth out of her we'll
Mrs. James Brown Potter is likely to realize that
the great actresses did begin their
ciety pets. Adelaide Nelson began life q chids
nurse, and nfterward became London tavern bar
maid, Rachel as q hungry and barefooted girl beat
the tambourne in tho streets Of Paris for pennies
Christine Nilsson a barefooted street-singer
Charlotte Cushman's parents were very poor Minnie
Hauk's father journeyman carpenter, and Nell
Gwynne peddled oranges.
In the Paris ballet traningschool all the ladies'
dressed in cotton flannel. which leaves their
and shoulders bare, with garment down to their
-kn<6s and boots ike the cothurnus. The wealthy
among have costly fur coats the poor have thin,
shabby shAws waterproofs 70 wrap themselves in
lights burning Several gentlemen stand about
of them carrying baton The orchestra consists
OF two viohns The maire dc ballet beating the floor
with his baton calls out: Now then, ladies. silence.
and assuming the attitude which his pupils are to
assume, he shouts: "Attentionl The prison scene
and the prisoners step You are chained-you-you.
bleui Look toward the sky! toward the sky,
tell Cross hands and put one foot forward.
unfasten your hands. Quickly! put your foot back"
Not unrequenty the baton is used for other purposes
than merely beat time and the lesson goes amid
scoding and cursing All the dancers take part in it,
from the very young the poor and the Innocent who
try embelish themselves with bunch of volets
piece of bright ribbon and PAIR OF orass rrngs,
the grand ladies' sparkling with diamonds from be-
hind the dim seen like Indian idols in the depths of
the pagodas OF Juggernaut.